rando832

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by rando832 3y ago
https://www.gnu.org
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by rando832 4y ago
Try abrowser from the Trisquel apt repo. It is a firefox rebuild with a few tweaks for privacy.
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by rando832 5y ago
Gplv2 violations are widespread, we need much much more enforcement and more copyleft software, and this could be a huge win. Free software's main purpose should not be to be proprietarized, too much of it now is a group effort among c
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by rando832 6y ago
Your quote is misleading. There are a list of reasons on that page, you imply it's just that one reason. > So shipping free software isn't even enough for admission to the FSFs special club. If you're free is designed to &
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by rando832 6y ago
> It's also unclear to me what the distinction is between this part of the criteria and the RYF certification. Ya, you are confused. The PureOS endorsement is about a distro you can download and put on a computer (the distro doesn&#
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by rando832 6y ago
Just no. Your link is about coreboot. The FSF endorsement is of PureOS (does not contain coreboot).
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by rando832 6y ago
And Microsoft said all GPL was a cancer and unamerican and viral and disallowed it from about 50k engineer's computers due to "legal risk of GPL virality", and this was when they were by far the biggest software company. Wait
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by rando832 6y ago
The "scripts to control" clause as you say is in all versions of the GPL, exactly the same in GPLv3, and slightly different I presume in GPLv2. It has been tested in court, and its been found to not be expansive like the fud you a
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by rando832 6y ago
"The Design of Everyday Things", I would consider the digital versions to be Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace http://codev2.cc/ and Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman https:/
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by rando832 7y ago
So, basically, exactly what the article says, a big nothing. The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Sarah Mei appears to have no special reason to hate rms, shes a well known person who is extremely negative about anyone
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by rando832 7y ago
This story has obvious falsehoods and as far as I can tell, is totally false or about the wrong person. 1. As far as I can tell, he was never on the board of VA Linux. 2. RMS was never married. https://www.quora.com/Is-Rich
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by rando832 9y ago
> the border agent doesn't care if the data is technically in the cloud In reality, they do. They are not asking you for every password you know and access to all the remote systems you have access to, and any that you can get acces
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by rando832 9y ago
Also, if it's built on open source as he says, that likely means linux, and tons of code that John Deer is not reviewing, so... trust you that john deer needs to protect farmers from letting people fix the code THEY WROTE. lol.
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by rando832 9y ago
> If a team of hundred of engineers struggle with their codebase internally, Joe Farmer isn't going to have a fucking clue how to repair their software correctly. > But trust me on this, locking this down is a very good idea. Joe
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by rando832 9y ago
> What a customer gets usually is something like 7 miles per dollar. Consumer website estimate[1] that in the best of case, a mile is equal to ~$0.01, so they're also saving money there. Your math is way off. If it's 7 miles pe
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by rando832 10y ago
See also: https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs
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by rando832 10y ago
No, your comment is complete FUD. Even a cursory skim of that blog post, you can see it's about a completely different issue in the TOS and does not discuss the issues this post is about at all.
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by rando832 10y ago
I used gerrit and did not utterly despised it. Hi.
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by rando832 10y ago
Oh ya, I shouldn't have said answer, because uniq is not a way to the answer, just something I naturally reached for while trying to figure out an answer.
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by rando832 10y ago
Interestingly, locale can change one answer. with LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8, sort faces.txt | uniq -c 5 (◕‿◕) uniq treats (︺︹︺) as equal to (◕‿◕). Copied the file to my machine to test.
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by rando832 10y ago
They are actively working on that. Their other sites are much better, see gnu.org and defectivebydesign.org.
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by rando832 10y ago
Words get to have more than one meaning. Your comment is not made from a cow, but there's nothing wrong with calling it bs.
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by rando832 10y ago
"any sort of policy based on race is racist." So you cannot identify racism without being a racist. And is the no race policy then racist itself, by being about race? No, this does not work as a blanket statement. Btw, this kind o
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by rando832 10y ago
A little inaccurate, .htaccess is disabled by default (2.3.9 and later), so you do not need "AllowOverride None" unless it's enabled somewhere else.
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by rando832 10y ago
It has been tested in court. Not all aspects, but there is no question as to whether it is enforceable.
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by rando832 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_ingredient "An active ingredient (AI) is the ingredient in a pharmaceutical drug that is biologically active. " Does it also reduce the amount of rainbows and unicorns? Yo
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by rando832 10y ago
> Notice how the transferred images have none of the power of the originals. Partly because they are like 200x200 pixel images. There is no power in the original either that way. And I've been seen a ton of these posts like "lo
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by rando832 10y ago
> The number of phone users who care about getting a root shell for their own use is vanishingly small Only a very small number of people care about how /any/ individual piece of technology could be improved, they have have oth
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by rando832 10y ago
> Keep in mind that data can always be anonymized. No it can't. Some data can be anonymized, some can't.
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by rando832 10y ago
You expect to type PRO and have people know what your talking about? I certainly don't, and unless you are talking about the wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRO_%28category_theory%29 , which it doesn&

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